Corporate and Securities Practice

Our Corporate and Securities practice group represents established, privately held businesses, as well as newly formed, and emerging early- and growth-stage companies, financial institutions of all types, and strategic and financial buyers and sellers in all aspects of structuring and negotiating business combinations, including mergers and acquisitions, asset and stock sales, private equity transactions, private securities offerings and financing, joint ventures, strategic partnerships and corporate reorganizations and restructurings. Our clients include regional and national businesses, real estate ventures, manufacturing companies, professional services firms, software development and emerging technology companies, franchises, and charitable and not-for-profit entities.

Our attorneys have extensive experience in:

• Day-to-day business advice
• Formation of business entities, including corporations, limited liability companies, partnerships, charitable organizations and grant foundations
• Negotiating and drafting shareholder, partnership and operating agreements
• Mergers and acquisitions
• Negotiating and drafting commercial contracts of all sorts, including supply and service agreements, equipment financing and leasing agreements, distribution and supply arrangements
• Dissolution of entities
• Structuring, negotiating and closing mergers of businesses and real estate ventures
• Long-term business planning and asset management strategies
• Employer-employee relations
• Planning a client’s exit or retirement strategy